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Jan 25 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Amy Goodman of @democracynow asks "where are the progressives?" on stopping war in Ukraine. The answer is that progressives like DN encouraged war by parroting Russiagate propaganda and excluding dissenting voices, e.g. the late Stephen F. Cohen, barred from DN after April 2017.
To illustrate, the question "where are the progressives?" is posed while parroting both the neo-McCarthyite talking point that Tucker Carlson wants to "side with Russia" and Dem Rep. Tom Malinowski's claim that Carlson "fans" are flooding Congress with calls to that effect.
In reality, Carlson actually said: "Why is it disloyal to side with Russia but loyal to side with Ukraine?" -- which Russiagaters reflexively attacked him for.

So to answer DN's original question of "where are the progressives?": they're still busy parroting the Russiagaters.
"Where are the progressives?" -@democracynow

The progressives:

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Jan 22
Sounds like Britain has taken what the US actually did to Ukraine in 2014, and rebooted it for Russia. Here's Obama-Biden official Victoria Nuland & then-US Amb. Geoffrey Pyatt privately deciding to install Arseniy Yatsenyuk ("Yats is the guy") as Ukraine's next Prime Minister:
Slipped in to almost every article about the latest nefarious Russian plot alleged by Western governments is a quiet, inconvenient admission: there's no evidence to show us.
Oh but don't worry: anonymous US officials "said they believe the British intelligence is correct." Case closed then. What matters is what our officials "believe", not what actual evidence they have actually collected, and can show us.
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Jan 22
When Trump paused such “lethal aid,” Dems cried treason & impeached based on premise he was using it to compel a probe of Biden. But they had no evidence his Biden scheme was tied to this “aid.” Hence they leaned in on Cold War jingoism & hoping that John Bolton could save them:
I warned at the time, in columns for The Nation, that Dems’ Ukrainegate, like its Russiagate predecessor, was not only based on flawed/non-existent evidence but also dangerous — further legitimating in left-liberal circles a neocon Cold War agenda. thenation.com/authors/aaron-…
I couldn’t find too many takers. Instead, Cold War fanatics were elevated as brave anti-Trump resistance heroes no matter how many unhinged, chauvinist things they said:
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Jan 20
New: Russiagate cheerleaders now claim that the discredited Steele dossier was "tangential" to FBI's Trump-Russia probe.

But the available evidence calls into question the FBI's narrative on how the probe began -- as John Durham has already previewed. realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/…
FBI & State officials received Steele's allegations – some meeting with the Clinton contractor himself – and discussed sending them up the FBI chain weeks before July 31, 2016, the date the FBI claims it opened the Russia-Trump conspiracy investigation.
The FBI claims that the Crossfire Hurricane team did not receive the Steele allegations until Sept. 19. If that's true, then those leading the Russiagate probe were among the few high-ranking officials in Washington intelligence circles unaware of the dossier.
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Dec 12, 2021
New ⁦reporting on US bombings of Syrian civilians & how they were concealed. Story claims CIA officials objected, which may be true, but is hard to square with massive toll of their dirty war in Syria. NYT reporting on that will likely take decades. nytimes.com/2021/12/12/us/…
Look how easy it is for the US to massacre civilians. How many more don't we know about?

"...the [US] task force claimed the ferries were carrying enemy fighters, and he watched on [HD] video as it hit multiple boats, killing at least 30 civilians, whose bodies drifted away."
US culpability for killing civilians in its anti-ISIS campaign is far worse than NYT exposes. ISIS grew out of US invasion of Iraq; US then sat back as ISIS spread through Syria -- as leverage for the US goal of regime change, as Kerry privately admitted:
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Dec 9, 2021
Today in Mexico City I was honored to receive an international journalism award from the Club de Periodistas de Mexico City, for my coverage of Russiagate in The Nation. Grateful to receive this in the company of so many brave journalists.
Thanks to @KatrinaNation for making it possible.

I want to dedicate this award to the memories of scholar Stephen F. Cohen and journalist Robert Parry of @Consortiumnews, two brave people who challenged Russiagate and the new Cold War, and inspired me greatly.
Shoutout to my @TheGrayzoneNews colleagues @MaxBlumenthal @anyaparampil @BenjaminNorton for their support & their inspirational work exposing actual foreign interference, US coups/dirty wars/sanctions worldwide especially here in Latin America.
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Dec 7, 2021
If there is no evidence of a chemical attack in Douma, as OPCW scientists found before being censored, how did the victims die?

We don't know. But from new leaks, we do know that OPCW shunned forensic pathology, which could have helped solve the murders.
thegrayzone.com/2021/12/06/cor…
There isn't only no evidence of a chemical attack; there's also ample evidence of a cover-up of the OPCW team that determined that. Plus ample open-source evidence of staging in Douma.

Those who whitewash the OPCW cover-up are ultimately whitewashing a massacre.
Even if you choose to ignore the leaks showing no evidence of a chemical attack & an extensive cover-up, no one disputes that the Douma hospital scene was staged.
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